28th October 2009,

Nicole Livingstone becomes an ambassador for Deaf Sports Australia

Deaf Sports Australia (DSA) today announced that former Australian Olympic swimming star Nicole Livingstone has agreed to become an official DSA ambassador.

With a career spanning over 10 years, Nicole’s is one of Australia’s greatest ever swimmers. Her achievements include a silver medal and 2 bronze medals from three Olympic appearances; 6 gold, 2 silver and a bronze from three Commonwealth Games and competing in six Pan Pacific Championships, winning 4 gold 2 silver and 1 bronze medals. She also broke a world record in the 200m backstroke (short course) in 1992.

Nicole’s connection to the deaf community spans back to 1985 at the Pan Pacific Championships, where she began her friendship with Deaflympic Legend Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick who was a fellow Australian Team member. Nicole and Cindy-Lu also competed together at the Commonwealth Games and several other events and have maintained regular contact since meeting and are still great friends.

Nicole also played a valuable role as an ambassador for the 2005 Melbourne Deaflympic Games, speaking at several events and helping to drive publicity for the Games.

“It’s a wonderful honour and privilege to come onboard as an ambassador for Deaf Sports Australia. Hopefully I can help promote and raise awareness of the benefits of participating in sport throughout the deaf and wider community”, said Livingstone.

As an ambassador of DSA, Livingstone’s involvement will range from featuring in and helping to promote DSA educational material to providing her support to help generate publicity and coverage for deaf sports issues and events.

Most recently Livingstone has forged a successful career in the media and has joined Network Ten as an expert commentator on the new ONE channel and co host of Thursday Night Live.

It is fantastic for Deaf Sports Australia to be able to have someone of Nicole’s standing and profile in the sports community to support the work we are doing. Having Nicole’s support will help to put a public face to the work we are doing and help to open doors and capture the attention of people who otherwise may not know about Deaf Sports Australia and the deaf community in general.

 Welcome aboard Nicole!

 

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